Data Management at University of East London

What, this old thing? When people actually use your outputs

In discussions this morning about research information, REF2020 and Open Access I was heartened to see our IT Director produce the survey on managing research data I conducted with John as part of the TraD project. He said that he kept “important documents” like this on the top of his filing system (also called a window sill), and this survey gave him good evidence of what is needed/wanted by UEL researchers. Too often, people start with a system (existing or potential) rather than their requirements.

So I thought I would remind myself what researchers said they wanted from a central RDM support service – and what we are offering in Research Data Services as a response: